In response to your request, here is the translation of the passage into English:
“Jin Woo seemed to have a painful expression at Ji Na’s question, which she found utterly unbelievable. The tips of his straight eyebrows trembled slightly.
Yet, he couldn’t take his eyes off Ji Na.
“Ji Na.”
At the sudden mention of her name, Ji Na flinched.
“It’s because of you, Ji Na.”
It was a statement Ji Na had heard before. But this time, she couldn’t trust Jin Woo as she had in the past.
“I can’t believe you. The reason you suddenly came to me, you too.”
“It’s the truth. I just didn’t say…”
Jin Woo briefly closed his mouth.
“If I became the supervisor for a non-intern staff… I was worried you couldn’t handle it. It would have been burdensome. I didn’t want to burden you.”
Jin Woo’s words were not wrong. If Ji Na had known in advance, she wouldn’t have been able to get so close to him like this.
“I volunteered to be an intern because I wanted to be by your side.”
Jin Woo’s final words resonated heavily with Ji Na. She felt her head spinning as if all the color had drained from her fingertips.
“What have I…”
In the face of his boundless love, Ji Na could only smile wryly. Somehow, even this seemed like a luxury.
“Honey!”
Someone called Ji Na’s name and approached her. It was Ji Hye. Ji Na was the only one she saw, and she rushed over to her, then cautiously asked Jin Woo, who she noticed belatedly.
“Aren’t you going to the wedding? What are you two doing here?”
Despite the festive atmosphere at the wedding venue, Ji Hye was taken aback by the stiflingly cold atmosphere.
“Who are those people?”
Ji Hye asked in a hushed voice, noticing the secretaries standing behind Jin Woo.
“I greeted them and came out. I probably won’t be able to stay until the end of the wedding.”
Ji Na turned her head towards Ji Hye with a perplexed expression. Ji Hye’s eyes widened as she finally looked at Ji Na’s face properly.
“What? Huh?”
Perplexed, Ji Hye couldn’t even grab Ji Na as she hurried away.
“Jin Woo, what happened?”
Ji Hye, who was questioning Jin Woo with a bewildered face, clicked her tongue in regret.
“I looked so pretty today, and we didn’t even take a picture.”
Unable to find a rational explanation, Ji Hye sighed in frustration.
Fortunately or unfortunately, Ji Na had a vacation starting from the day after the wedding. She felt that thoughts of Jin Woo would naturally come to her if she went to work. The time they spent together as mentor and mentee had been short but intense.
After parting ways on the wedding day as if fleeing, Ji Na had been avoiding Jin Woo’s calls one by one. She had no confidence.
He was an executive at her company. He was someone high up and out of reach. They were no longer on such familiar terms.”
Here is the translation of the passage into English:
“Regardless of what happened before… even Do Jin was like that. After becoming a manager, he always taught about the difference in positions. So maybe she had blindly obeyed Do Jin’s intentions.
As Ji Na pondered how to spend her unplanned vacation, she finally heard the news that her house had been sold.
“The moving date has been set. I feel uneasy about leaving Seoul.”
Ji Na’s mother said as she folded laundry.
“You should get married while you have the chance.”
Was it her mother’s sincere wish? Ji Na cut an apple and bit it with a bitter expression.
“I guess I’m destined to live alone, Mom.”
“No, I heard that coworkers often meet and fall in love at wedding venues.”
Her mother continued, sounding regretful.
“When you work for a big company, you usually handle relationships well.”
Ji Na’s enthusiasm to respond faded in the voice filled with disappointment.
“Yeah, well, I suppose fate has its ways.”
Although she pretended otherwise, it seemed her daughter’s transition to an employee with an ID number starting with “3” next year bothered her.
“What’s the difference between ‘3’ and ‘4’? It’s more painful if you marry any guy and divorce later.”
Ji Na’s mother muttered, probably addressing no one in particular by now. By this point, her mother’s mumbled monologue had reached almost a professional level.
“I was worried about how you would live in the countryside of Gangwon Province, but when I see you, I feel like you’ll live better than anyone.”
At least she wouldn’t be lonely. Ji Na jokingly commented, and her mother glanced at her while continuing to shake the laundry.
“Oh, you’re good at talking.”
“Then, all this talking will help me endure at work, Mom. If I’m good at this, the company will make money.”
“Really? Mom should get a job too.”
Her mother recoiled, and Ji Na seemed to remember something, her eyes widening.
“Oh, right. I have a reliable “Baek” (a hundred).”
“A ‘Baek’? What are you talking about?”
“It’s there. Ask Mom to get a job.”
She made a pointless joke, but it left a bitter taste in her mouth.
“What do you mean there’s a ‘Baek’ at the company.”
“Mom, don’t judge me based on my daughter.”
She stabbed the fork deeply into the core of the yellow apple.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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